Provided vs Ensured - What's the difference?
provided | ensured |
Only if (the stipulation that follows is true).
(provide)
(ensure)
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As verbs the difference between provided and ensured
is that provided is (provide) while ensured is (ensure).As a conjunction provided
is only if (the stipulation that follows is true).provided
English
Conjunction
(head) (also provided that )- You can go to the party provided you finish all your homework first.
Synonyms
* on condition that * only if * provided that * providing * as long asVerb
(head)Statistics
*ensured
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *ensure
English
Verb
(ensur)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}